Divine Trash

A documentary profile of filmmaker John Waters, Divine Trash focuses on the bad-taste pioneer's early years, especially his 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos, which turned the director of Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs into the king of midnight movies thanks to word of mouth about the film's ...more

John Waters is such an endlessly entertaining interview subject that it would be hard to make a bad documentary about him as long as the filmmaker himself agreed to participate. Luckily, Divine Trash director Steve Yeager had extensive access to not only Waters himself, but also his expansive archives, resulting in a documentary that's as informative as it is amusing. It says a lot about Waters' self-confidence that he shot making-of footage during the shoestring-budget production of Pink ...more